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Premium Member Five Decades of Doppelgangers
I: in the 70s

At sixteen, looking through a magazine,
I came across the picture of a girl
whose character was Mary Ellen in
“The Waltons” show I watched...

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Categories: line of work, history, lifeme, me,
Form: Blank verse



Dope Boy
You’re selling drugs to your own people; you’re like a terrorist bomb 
            ...

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Categories: line of work, education, inspirational, life, passion,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Empty Saddle
They formed a posse and it was loaded

Three experienced  at tracking

And their guide

He was a one-legged kangaroo

No one dared to waltz with him

Even Matilda...

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Categories: line of work, funny, horse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Call Her Name
I call her name in my sleep 
                 No,...

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Categories: line of work, day, death, grave, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Take This Job and Stuff It
I worked in a bowlin' place settin' pins,

Tryin' not to let a ball break my shins!

In those days of yore, pins were set by hand,

And...

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Categories: line of work, humorous, jobs,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Job Interview
The HR person called me in… I was turning gray… Was he even twenty-one?
I wondered if the interview would go well, as he did fung...

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Categories: line of work, adventure, career, change, computer,
Form: Light Verse
Lines
LINES

We LINE up in traffic, or clear out the door, 
And there are BEELINES we make, to the seashore.
Get mad and we're "DRAWING A LINE...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: line of work, allusion, angst, humor, spoken
Form: List
The Ride
THE RIDE

I got a horse named Sam, a dog named Joe, 
and my old Chevy truck.
In the front of my trailer is my saddle and...

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Categories: line of work, life,
Form: Verse
Angels Don'T Sing the Blues
Sent down from Heaven, their jobs are sure tough
But they don’t fly away when the going gets rough
They rise to the challenge to bring back...

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Categories: line of work, faith, inspirational, song-song, love,
Form: Lyric
Tacita Pruval Learns the True Identity of Jack the Ripper
Tacita leaned in close and lowered her voice a tad. “So tell me, Jack. What’s your real name?"

"You don’t really want to know who I...

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Categories: line of work, humor, murder, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
I Know I Loved You Right
by Rachel Dunkerque AKA Carolyn V. Crawford
(lyric and melody)

I took the time to scratch your hair
I took the time to clip your nails
And I even...

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Categories: line of work, abuse,
Form: Lyric
Murder-Suicide
Standing at the fork in the road,
I don’t know which way to go.
I watch a girl stand there crying,
Running to and fro.
Her tears fall to...

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Categories: line of work, sadgirl,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom Is Not Free
alone in this world of chaos and destruction
fighting to survive in a world with lost hopes
my dreams of freedom becomes just an illusion
while i strive...

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Categories: line of work, warlife, god, me, world,
Form: I do not know?
Office Worker At Sunrise
Office Worker At Sunrise

Early to bed early to rise, makes one healthy and wise....
Ready yourself, it is a new day with each sunrise....

Spring quickly out...

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Categories: line of work, angst, blessing, character, community,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Car Club Meeting Lament - Text - Part 2 of 2
Note: This is the 2nd half of one of my MANY long story works, and the 1st half can be accessed, of course, at "poems...

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Categories: line of work, car,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things